The European Commission has today designated, for the first time, six gatekeepers - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft - under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). In total, 22 core platform services provided by gatekeepers have been designated. The six gatekeepers will now have six months to ensure full compliance with the DMA obligations for each of their designated core platform services.

  • NeshuraA
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    110 months ago

    I think the problem with M$ and especially Apple is that since their OSes are very popular their default Apps have a high install base. But since few people actually use them they don’t have the corresponding monthly active users. iMessage for example only serves as the SMS client for most people to receive stuff like shipping notifications or OTPs. I don’t think that will be enough to get them out of being designated Gatekeepers but it explains why their services are not yet decided on.